Courses
From: Amy Baldwin
Date: 28 Feb 2007
Subject: Salford Systems Data Mining Training
Salford Systems' Worldwide Data Mining Training Opportunities:
- Hands-on trainings, demonstrations, webinars, online trainings, online beginner sessions (vendor neutral), mini-courses and real-world case study presentations.
- Boston, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Europe.
- Detailed list of course offerings below.
Hands-on data mining training:
- Boston (April 30-May 4), Europe (May 29-30), San Jose (August 13-16), San Francisco (Fall, 2007), San Diego (December 3-7).
- Companies can also receive training at their own sites.
- 7 Courses: Getting Started with Data Mining (vendor neutral), CART, Advanced CART, MARS, TreeNet/MART, RandomForests, Enhancing Logistic Regression Models.
- Register for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 days.
Data mining demonstrations:
- March and April, 2007 in the United States and Canada.
- April, 2007 in Asia.
- We would like to meet with you when we are in your neighborhood. Please contact us to schedule.
Webinars:
- March 9, 2007
Applying Salford Systems’ Technology To Transportation Operations: How Do Trees And Transportation Go Together?
Discusses the potential opportunities your transportation business has to improve quality of service, articulate business rules, and to re-engineer operations through data mining.
- April, 2007
Modern Techniques to Develop Prediction Models for Medical Research:
Discusses the use of new modeling techniques in clinical medical research. Learn how the same techniques used by major credit companies for detecting fraudulent activity can be used in clinical medicine to aid clinical decision making. See examples where standard statistical methods were less accurate in developing a prediction model.
Future webinars:
- Webinars will be offered bi-monthly beginning in March. Future topics include: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics for the Financial Services Industry, Data Mining and Predictive Analytics for Marketers, and Data Mining and Predictive Analytics for Environmental Research.
- We welcome your suggestions for future topics.
Online data mining training (full day, limited enrollment):
- March 23, 2007: Advanced CART
1-hour vendor neutral intro to data mining for absolute beginners (online):
- May 23, June 14 and Sept 7, 2007.
- This one-hour webinar is a perfect place to start if you are new to data mining and have little-to-no background in statistics or machine learning.
Data mining mini-courses:
- 2-hour introductory mini-courses offered in conjunction with the Joint Statistical Meetings and the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
- August 1, 2007 in Salt Lake City, UT.
- August, 2007 in San Jose, CA.
Real-world case study presentations:
We also recommend Drs. Hastie and Tibshirani's short course entitled
"Tools for Tall and Wide Data, State-of-the-Art Statistical Methods
for Data Analysis." They offer a broad overview of the field for
technically oriented modelers and analysts. Their coverage is vendor
neutral but they devote time to discussion of several Salford products
including CART(R), MARS(R), TreeNet(R) and RandomForests(R).
See: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie/mrc.html for more detailed information.
Detailed Schedule and List of Course Offerings:
www.salfordsystems.com/servicestraining.php
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Amy Baldwin
Ph: (619)543-8880
Fax: (619)543-8888
URL: http://www.salford-systems.com
Email: tutorial@salford-systems.com
Salford Systems, 4740 Murphy Canyon Rd. Ste 200, San Diego, Calif. 92123
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